Lecture

Week 1

• 8/22 Lecture 1: Introduction PPT
• 8/24 Lecture 2: Performance Evaluation PPT

Week 2

• 8/29 Lecture 3: ISA Principles PDF PDF (1 page)
• 8/31 Lecture 4: Superscalar Techniques Overview PDF PDF (1 page)

Week 3

• 9/7 Lecture 5: Scoreboarding and Tomasulo Algorithm PDF PDF (1 page)

Week 4

• 9/12 Lecture 6: Scoreboarding and Tomasulo Algorithm (cont)
• 9/14 Lecture 7: Speculative Execution and Recovery using Reorder Buffer PDF PDF (1 page)

Week 5

• 9/19 Lecture 8: Branch Prediction PDF PDF (1 page)
• 9/21 Lecture 9: Memory Dependence and Speculation PDF PDF (1 page)

Week 6

• 9/26 Lecture 10: Modern Superscalar Processor Models and Examples (Alpha 21264 and Intel Pentium) PDF PDF (1 page) PDF (1 page)
• 9/28 Lecture 11: Modern Superscalar Processor Models and Examples (Alpha 21264 and Intel Pentium), continue

Week 7

• 10/3 Lecture 12: Cache Basics and Cache Performance PDF
• 10/5 Lecture 13: Cache Basics and Cache Performance, Continue

Week 8

• 10/10 Lecture 14: Cache Optimizations I PDF PDF (1 page)
• 10/12 Mid-term

Week 9

• 10/17 Lecture 15: Cache Optimizations II PDF PDF (1 page)
• 10/19 Lecture 16: Cache Optimizations III PDF PDF (1 page)

Week 10

• 10/24 Lecture 17: Cache Optimizations IV PDF PDF (1 page)
• 10/26 Lecture 18: Shared-memory SMP: Overview and Cache Coherence PDF PDF (1 page)

Week 11

• 10/31 Lecture 19: Shared-memory SMP: Cache Coherence (cont) PDF PDF (1 page)
• 11/2 Lecture 20: Shared-memory SMP: Example and Performance PDF PDF (1 page)

Week 12

• 11/2 Lecture 21: Low Power Design Principles PDF PDF (1 page)
• 11/9 Lecture 22: Low Power Design Principles (cont.)

Week 13

• 11/17 Lecture 23: Multicore and Multithreading Techniques PDF PDF (1 page)
• 11/19 (Class re-scheduled to 11/29)

Thanksgiving break

Week 14

• 11/28 Lecture 24: Static Superscalar, VLIW and EPIC PDF PDF (1 page)
• 11/29 Lecture 25: High-performance Storage Systems PDF PDF (1 page)
• 11/30 Lecture 26: Secure Processor Design PDF PDF (1 page)
  See reading materials for related papers.

Week 15

• 12/5 Student Presentation
  • Correlation-based Prefetching Techiques, by Koray Celik and Kamna Jain and Viswanathan Subramanian
  • Multimedia Processors, by Daniel Helvick and Ramon Mercado
• 12/7 Student Presentation
  • Processors with Integrated DRAM Memory, by Osameh Al-Kofahi and Jinxu Ding
  • Trace Cache Design, by Song Sun and Xinyuan Zhao

Week 16

• Final Exam